The Great A.I. Awakening

how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself... What is at stake is not just one more piecemeal innovation but control over what very well could represent an entirely new computational platform: pervasive, ambient artificial intelligence...
Artificial general intelligence will not involve dutiful adherence to explicit instructions, but instead will demonstrate a facility with the implicit, the interpretive... a general tool, designed for general purposes in a general context ...
three overlapping stories that converge in Google Translate’s successful metamorphosis ... The third ... story of deep learning... might very well contribute to the revision of our self-image as first and foremost beings who think...
We’re not only talking about three and a half million truck drivers who may soon lack careers. We’re talking about inventory managers, economists, financial advisers, real estate agents.